In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

We are united by the bond of love.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.

Hearing the blues changed my life.